Chinese_Econmic_Reform

Chinese Econmic Reform Chinese Economic Reform Two years after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, it became apparent to many of China's leaders that economic reform was necessary. During his tenure as China's premier, Mao had encouraged social movements such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution which had had as their bases ideologies such as serving the people and maintaining the class struggle. By 1978 "Chinese leaders were searching for a solution to serious economic problems produced by Hua Guofeng, the man who had succeeded Mao Zedong as CCP leader after Mao's death" (Shirk 35). Hua had china, economic, china's, new, trade, reform, york, 1994, times, chinese, market, united, problems, august, world, system, state, dorn, chicago, university, stock, states, press, moral, james, become, shanghai, one, investment, force, d2, company, ccp, been, 1990